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I have picked her rendition of “I’ll Fly Away” to be played at my funeral. I think her voice sounds like the ringing of a bell it is perfect to me.

Let's get these final 9 regular season games under our belts with NU being successful. I'm not taking anything for granted. Enjoy the rollercoaster ride! GBR!!

I’m hoping we get our first win before my ED is full blown. Could very well be the last woody for me.

Yeah crying but also very worried that I might die because that is one of the last things on my bucket list

And Kendall M. gets average minutes when she. Seems to be a catalyst. Go figure.

Bart Torvik's T-Rank is nearly identical to KenPom, and it's free. https://barttorvik.com/team.php?team=Nebraska&year=2024 His predictions are usually within a point or two of Ken's

February 3, 1959 was a sad, sad day. 65 years ago. Wow! Imagine what could have been... As far as the game tomorrow evening, "All of my life, I've been a-waiting. Tonight they'll be no hesitating". Oh, Boy! GBR!

The Pride of Urbana IL, was lucky enough to catch them at Mabel’s.

I’m hoping Creighton ends up on our side of the Bracket. Then let’s make THEM Cry

Mrs cip and I, along with 2 special friends will go down to Beale Street and celebrate!

Alison Krauss spent her formative years in Champaign and won the Illinois state fiddling championship at age 10.

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Got 3 possessions / chances at the go ahead bucket in the final 30 seconds - can't ask for much more than that. The last 2 shots were good looks, all things considered, by your top 2 players. Probably a little unlucky one of those two didn't drop. But if you want to be an NCAA team, you just can't put yourself in that position to be a little unlucky because of the putrid performance the other 39:30 at home against a team like RU. Disastrous loss.

I would have felt bad for Rutgers if we had won, because they deserved it. We had every chance to win. I don’t understand why Shelly took a 3 when we were only down one. Especially with how poorly she was shooting today. Sometimes this team really has me scratching my head. I really hope White is ok. She’s playing good basketball right now.

That's a pretty accurate line, all things considered. Wouldn't surprise me to see it move to 10 or 11 by tip off. After the miracle comeback Thursday, we're playing with house money Sunday. Hopefully we play relaxed and just let it rip.

Nothing like being outplayed by the last place team on your home court. Whoops, I am being negative.

Patti Smith, born in Chicago

Tough to say...I'm sure I will be overcome with emotion, but not sure how exactly that will manifest itself. Tears are possible, but the emotions will be complicated because there would be a now bigger game looming in two days.

If you’ve been around Lincoln long enough you’ll know they played an East High Keg Party after a Pershing gig back in the 70’s. Facts

This is from the UNL Game Day/Game Notes for today's game. Really interesting to see season stats for Hake. "Callin Hake is proving herself as one of the Big Ten’s most improved players from a year ago. The 5-8 sophomore from Victoria, Minn., already owns more points (+10), assists (+27), free throws made (+18), rebounds (+20), steals (+7) and blocks (+1) than all of last season in 18 fewer minutes. She is also shooting 45.8 percent (27-59) from three-point range while averaging 6.9 points per game compared to 4.3 points per game last season."

I don't remember crying in 2004 when the Red Sox finally won after my 50th year of waiting. But after taking congratulatory phone calls from friends and family, I took a long solitary walk down my driveway, thinking about all the time and angst I had expended waiting for a moment which I never thought I would see. I felt something had fundamentally changed in my world view. A lunar eclipse served as the backdrop for my pensive mood. I think a Husker NCAA win might evoke a similar feeling, although there would be another game to worry about. For excellent descriptions of the sensations felt by fans, I recommend the book, "Win it for" by members of the Sons of Sam Horn website.

Just like 2014 I'm coming to Nebraska to pick up my Dad. Then him and I are going dancing. And If we win our 1st tournament game there will be 2 grown ass men crying with you

She is so pure of voice. Her rendition of “Catfish John” is my favorite.

That was pure entertainment reading this thread all the way through... cipsucks gets to tbag all the doom and gloomers, that man never had any doubt!

The Huskers will win their first game in the dance, before I get married.

It sounds like I would very likely watch you cry.

Unless it’s in Omaha, I’ll likely not be there… but crying just may happen. Not going to lie. Literally everyone that’s alive that’s a Husker fan can say “I’ve been waiting my whole life for this.” #NoShame

Hey @jimmykc It's only sunshine pumping if you do it before the game/season. When done in real time, it's speaking into the situation. Decreeing and declaring! Words, spoken or written, have power! I'll be speaking into the Illinois game thread soon.

After a large enough sample size, 22 games, Nebraska is putting together one of its best offensive seasons, in about 30 years or so. Nebraska is averaging 77.4 points on 45% shooting overall, with 36.3% on threes, and 75.1% on FTs. Averaging 9.5 three-makes per game leads the Big Ten, in fact. Those are solid, solid numbers for a tournament quality team. Mast is avg 13.6 ppg, 8.3 rpg & 3.0 apg on 46.3%, 34.3%, 82.2% Brice is avg 13.3 ppg, 5.6 rpg & 2.6 apg on 43.6%, 39.5%, 85.1% (plus 1.0 stl/gm + 0.7 blk/gm) Keisei is avg 13.1 ppg, 1.9 rpg & 1.0 apg on 44.1%, 35.9%, 87.2% (plus 1.0 stl/gm) Juwan is avg 11.5 ppg, 5.7 rpg & 1.2 apg on 51.8%, 31.5%, 64.3% (plus 1.1 stl/gm + 0.9 blk/gm) Wilcher avg's 9.7 ppg, 1.7 rpg & 1.1 apg on 52.6%, 48.3%, 93.3% (plus 0.6 stl/gm) Allick 6.8, 4.9 & 1.4 J-Law 5.9, 3.5 & 2.8 Sam 3.5, 3.0 & 1.5 (plus 1.1 stl/gm) You get the picture, Nebraska has a very well-rounded team. I think this team has the offensive make-up to get things done in March. Time to get it going on the road. GBR

Does he know how good this team could be?

Just wanted to throw out some other guys because it feels like as well as Wilcher is doing people tend to forget that other teams have guys as well CJ Wilcher - NEB - 18.9 MPG, 9.7 PPG, 1.7 Reb, 1.1 assists, 52.6% FG, 48.3% 3pt Mason Gillis - PUR - 19.6 MPG, 6.8 PPG, 3.5 Reb, 1.5 assists, 54% FG, 50.8% 3pt Luke Goode - ILL - 24.4 MPG, 7.4 PPG, 4.0 Reb, 0.5 assists, 41.5% FG, 40.6% 3pt Nick Martinelli - NW - 21.8 MPG, 7.3 PPG, 3.9 Reb, 0.9 assists, 52.8% FG, 36.4% 3pt Tre Holloman - Mich - 19.9 MPG, 6 PPG, 1.3 Reb, 3.0 assists, 47.0% FG, 44.4% 3pt Jahari Long - Mary - 18.9 MPG, 5.3 PPG, 1.4 Reb, 1.6 assists, 45.0% FG, 37.8% 3pt Pharrel Payne - Min - 21.1 MPG, 9.6 PPG, 5.9 Reb, 1.5 blocks, 61.3% FG Will Tschetter - Mich - 16.6 MPG, 6.9 PPG, 2.3 Reb, 0.7 assists, 61.9% FG, 57.6% 3pt

In anticipation of the Memphis regional, I'm baking some country style pork ribs with Corky's BBQ sauce. Memphis' own. Can't wait to eat there in person! The aroma wafting from the oven is orgasmic. That's what mrs. cip said....

Watched this on NE Public Media… that one will leave a mark on a resume… and not a good mark.

Being outscored 22-11 in the 3rd quarter is a very bad sign for the Big Red. Not good at all.

How does Markowski have zero rebounds in 8 min.???

And his father, Gary Bargen, as Danny's lead assistant. It went downhill after Gary left NU's coaching realm... kind of like Craig Smith leaving Miles.

Illinois has a lot of terrible people but clowns are creepy.

My wife and I have taken the Thursday/Friday of the first weekend of March Madness off for 10 years straight. Always fun to watch the tourney, always ready to go if we make it. Last time we were in it was her match day at UNMC and we rushed down Farnam to watch at Crescent Moon. Emotional roller coaster watching us lose right after learning we’d be moving across the country.

Wow we have beaten everyone in conference in front of us, guess Illinois is in trouble. Sent from my moto g stylus 5G (2022) using Tapatalk

Juju Watkins scored 51 of USCs 67 tonight in a win over Stanford. Sent from my SM-S911U using Tapatalk

There's no crying in Basketball. Oh wait thats baseball, I forgot that.

Why the heck not? It's fun for the kids. It is all about the kids in the moment. Last court storming it was mostly middle-aged folks against a top-ranked PU. Again, it's all in good fun.

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At least this year we have the signature wins over #1 Purdue and #6 Wisconsin. Looking back to that 2017-18 squad, it looks like our best wins were over #14 Minnesota and #23 Michigan, both in Lincoln. We did win four B1G road games that year, though If we can just win two of the remaining five road games (Illinois, Northwestern, Indiana, Ohio State, and Michigan) it would negate the main argument against inviting this team to the dance. Those last three teams shouldn't be nearly as motivated to win as we will be in late February/early March.

Oh I hope so.

I think it depends on your roster, who's returning, how much experience they have, how you did the previous year. For example, we had Keisei, Gary, Lawrence, CJ, and Hoiberg back from a .500 team. I think racking up wins, gaining confidence, seeing what was there from the transfers trumped creating Q1/Q2 opportunities. If everything goes well down the stretch. We make the NCAA tournament, and everyone stays, who can, next year would deserve scheduling Q1/Q2 games. We could return Brice, Gary, Lawrence, CJ, Mast, Sam, and Rice. That's some good experience. We are probably scheduling to get the best seed for the Dance.

It makes sense given that there are plenty of basketball fans who live in Omaha and that it counts as a neutral game despite the fact it would be a home crowd.

We are 55 right now and i think we would be in the dance, if it was called today. There are many ahead of us in this metric that would not be chosen ahead of us. Especially after last night. Yes, being in the 40's would be comforting, but I don't think it is required. And yes, we need Mich St to stay in Quad 1.

I really like this team.

Gary being back was huge.